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This transcript details a statement made before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the subject of Russia's deteriorating Human Rights situation. The speaker describes a worrying trend in President Putin's political strategy of rhetorically linking foreign NGOs and civil society with political movements in order to undermine and discredit his opponents. The speaker offers several recommendations for the US to support NGOs in Russia and its civil society, but also cautions against too much involvement in the political struggle underway in Russia.